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1 online resource (xv, 199 pages) : illustrations |
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How can we reconstruct evolutionary history? Classification and biological nomenclature -- Modern phylogenetics -- Homology and analogy : lungs, swim bladders, and gills -- Geological time scale and the chronology of a few key events -- A few relevant paleontological localities -- Conquest of land : data from extant vertebrates. Are animals still conquering the land today? -- The coelacanth, a living fossil? -- Dipnoans : our closest extant finned cousins -- Reproduction among tetrapods : amphibians are not all amphibious! -- Paleontological context. The conquest of land in various taxa -- The history of our ideas about the conquest of land by vertebrates -- The lateral-line organ and the lifestyle of Paleozoic stegocephalians -- Vertebrate limb evolution. The vertebrate skeleton -- Hox genes and the origin of digits -- Sarcopterygian fins and the origin of digits -- Fragmentary fossils, phylogeny, and the first digits -- The gills of Acanthostega and the original function of the tetrapod limb -- Bone microanatomy and lifestyle -- Diversity of Paleozoic stegocephalians. Temnospondyls -- Embolomeres -- Seymouriamorphs -- Amphibians -- Diadectomorphs -- Amniotes -- Stegocephalian phylogeny -- Adaptations to life on land. Limbs and girdles -- Vertebral centrum and axial skeleton -- Breathing -- The skin and water exchange -- Sensory organs -- Synthesis and conclusion. Conquest of land and the first returns to the aquatic environment -- Why come onto land? -- Modern paleontology and the "Indiana Jones" stereotype. |
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9780520947986 (electronic bk.) |
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0520947983 (electronic bk.) |
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1282790242 |
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9781282790247 |
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9780520266476 |
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0520266471 |
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